Local residents, businesses, commuters and visitors are being given the opportunity to have their say on ambitious new plans for Carlisle Railway Station and its surrounding area.

A car dealer from Carlisle has been fined £3,500 and ordered to do 150 hours of community service, for selling a dangerous vehicle and claiming the car had a valid MOT certificate, when it did not.

A Carlisle off-licence owner has been found guilty of selling alcohol to under-age customers for a second time, following a joint operation between Cumbria Police and Cumbria Trading Standards.

Cumbria County Council are holding an official opening event on Monday 1st July 2019 for their new state of the art residential care home in Carlisle; Burnrigg Court. The event will take place between 2.30pm and 4pm at the home, which is located in the Morton district of Carlisle.

Work to provide a new temporary car park on the site of the former county council Lonsdale Building at the rear of the Citadel in Carlisle is due to begin on Monday 17 June.

As part of the additional £12m funding received from the Department for Transport in November 2018, Cumbria County Council has invested £400,000 into resurfacing a stretch of the A6 just outside Carlisle - one of approx. 100 projects the additional funding has been used for to keep Cumbria moving.

Public invited to have their say on Carlisle Southern Link Road plans

The names of two new care homes in Carlisle and Copeland have been publicly revealed today